Now that you know a little more about photosharing and the tools that are available, it's time to think about how you as a teacher can make use of this new and exciting technology!
Ideas for teachers:
1. Create a story book using shared pictures
2. Inspire writing and creativity
3. Create a presentation or slideshow using flickr
4. Also using Flickr you can create other interesting things such as posters, magazine covers and cd covers all using photos taken by your students
5. Promote and document school events in order to share photos with the wider community.
6. Use tags and key words to help organise photos within the school
7. Create a photo blog using the shared photos
8. Using tools such as Flickr allows parents the chance to SEE what their child does at school. Why wait to show parents student work once a term via portfolio. Share work instantly using these types of tools.
9. Have students take a photo of their artwork and post online for others students to critique and share feedback.
(Information taken from: http://www.ext.upmc.fr/urfist/rss/100ideasWeb2educators.pdf)
Choosing a programme to best suit your needs:
Each of these types of programmes ares supported in various ways so choose a programme that works best for you and your school.
Examples:
1. Advertising supported model which allows usres free access e.g. Flikr
2. Some depend on users to purchase photos online e.g. Shutterfly
3. Some have subscription fees e.g. SmugMug
4. Some simply use peer-2-peer network to share photos directly from your computer e.g Picasa
Taking it all to the next level!
The idea of schools being able to promote themselves via a website is not new – but now with photo and video sharing you can take it to a whole new level. You can use Flickr so the school can share photos of their events - click here. The beauty about this is that parents are able to access and add to the collection as well. There are ‘Flickr toys’ available too...... and well worth checking out - click here. As Principal of the upcoming school at Pegasus I am really interested in how new schools ingender anticipation and excitement to a school population yet to arrive. Te Totara School, Hamilton was opened this year and through video, prospective parents and pupils were able to feel part of the project by watching the school being developed and built http://www.citynorth.school.nz (in the News section). A sense of ‘history’ and process is conveyed really well through photo and video. In Melbourne, Roxburgh Rise Primary School was opened in 2005 and they share the specialness of their school online at http://www.roxburghrise-ps.vic.edu.au/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=20:12</span> Real classroom action can be delivered to everyones home through Youtube. The honesty and no ‘airs and graces’ approach is fantastic. You can feel the excitement of the boys and really relate to the teacher – all through video……www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3H9I4oxiMg Children sharing work is often the domain of assemblies and classes but now it can be much wider. Imagine Danny ringing (or emailing) his relatives to say “Hey check out http://www.megormiston.com/bookreport.mov and watch my latest report”. Children and adults are already way ahead of schools in photosharing. There are 106 million users of Myspace (Sept 2006!) this would make it the 11th largest country in the world between Japan and Mexico. Educators cannot afford to be excited by and embrace this kind of technology.
Now that you know a little more about photosharing and the tools that are available, it's time to think about how you as a teacher can make use of this new and exciting technology!
Ideas for teachers:
1. Create a story book using shared pictures2. Inspire writing and creativity
3. Create a presentation or slideshow using flickr
4. Also using Flickr you can create other interesting things such as posters, magazine covers and cd covers all using photos taken by your students
5. Promote and document school events in order to share photos with the wider community.
6. Use tags and key words to help organise photos within the school
7. Create a photo blog using the shared photos
8. Using tools such as Flickr allows parents the chance to SEE what their child does at school. Why wait to show parents student work once a term via portfolio. Share work instantly using these types of tools.
9. Have students take a photo of their artwork and post online for others students to critique and share feedback.
(Information taken from: http://www.ext.upmc.fr/urfist/rss/100ideasWeb2educators.pdf)
Choosing a programme to best suit your needs:
Each of these types of programmes ares supported in various ways so choose a programme that works best for you and your school.Examples:
1. Advertising supported model which allows usres free access e.g. Flikr
2. Some depend on users to purchase photos online e.g. Shutterfly
3. Some have subscription fees e.g. SmugMug
4. Some simply use peer-2-peer network to share photos directly from your computer e.g Picasa
Taking it all to the next level!
The idea of schools being able to promote themselves via a website is not new – but now with photo and video sharing you can take it to a whole new level. You can use Flickr so the school can share photos of their events - click here. The beauty about this is that parents are able to access and add to the collection as well. There are ‘Flickr toys’ available too...... and well worth checking out - click here.
As Principal of the upcoming school at Pegasus I am really interested in how new schools ingender anticipation and excitement to a school population yet to arrive. Te Totara School, Hamilton was opened this year and through video, prospective parents and pupils were able to feel part of the project by watching the school being developed and built http://www.citynorth.school.nz (in the News section). A sense of ‘history’ and process is conveyed really well through photo and video. In Melbourne, Roxburgh Rise Primary School was opened in 2005 and they share the specialness of their school online at http://www.roxburghrise-ps.vic.edu.au/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=20:12</span>
Real classroom action can be delivered to everyones home through Youtube. The honesty and no ‘airs and graces’ approach is fantastic. You can feel the excitement of the boys and really relate to the teacher – all through video……www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3H9I4oxiMg
Children sharing work is often the domain of assemblies and classes but now it can be much wider. Imagine Danny ringing (or emailing) his relatives to say “Hey check out http://www.megormiston.com/bookreport.mov and watch my latest report”.
Children and adults are already way ahead of schools in photosharing. There are 106 million users of Myspace (Sept 2006!) this would make it the 11th largest country in the world between Japan and Mexico. Educators cannot afford to be excited by and embrace this kind of technology.